Trump Campaign To Air New ‘Deplorables’ Ad In Battleground States

The campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump is is launching a new ad in battleground states hitting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for her comment Friday in which she called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.”

The ad, which will cost roughly $2 million, will air this week in the four important battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina.

Clinton’s comments are painted in the ad as “viciously demonizing hard-working people” in front of “wealthy donors.”￼The uproar began after the Democratic nominee described Trump’s supporters at a fundraiser Friday in a generally demeaning manner.

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“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said.

“Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it,” she continued.

Over the weekend, Clinton walked back her comments, saying that she regretted saying “half.”

“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea,” she said. “I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” adding that she will still be calling out any “bigotry” she sees in the Trump campaign.

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Trump told Fox News he believes her comment was “the biggest mistake of the political season.”

The “deplorables” remark was not the only issue Clinton had to deal with over the weekend, as questions about her health came into focus after an “overheating” incident during a 9/11 tribute in New York on Sunday.

Many in the media had mocked speculation about Clinton’s health as nothing more than conspiracy talk, but Sunday’s incident, which led to the candidate being escorted away while looking disoriented, thrust the issue right into the spotlight of the mainstream.

The Clinton campaign has said that Clinton’s doctor diagnosed her with pneumonia on Friday and that combined with the heat led to the “overheating” issue on Sunday.